METEOROLOGICAL.
During the month of May the rainfall amounted to 6-50 inches, raining on twenty-two days. This is the heaviest rainfall at Christchurch for some storm of last week was indicated by the sudden tali of the mercury in the barometer—o'326 on Friday morning was saturated, recording 10 of Schonbein’s scale. The rainfall during the storm was 3*87 Inches. The raingua (r e being partly sheltered In its present nosition! it is probable the rainfall was in excess of that recorded. The velocity of the wind as recorded by the anemometer for the twenty-four hours, from 9.30 a.m. on Saturday to 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, the 6th, is 1319*5 miles, the highest recorded at Christchurch. (At Auckland, on 24th March, 1872, during a violent storm, 1360 miles was registered). The mean would be, withiu a fraction, fifty-five miles per hour, indicating a Eressure of 15lb per square foot; but as the storm ad abated early on Sunday morning, it is probable that when the storm was at its height the pressure would amount to 30lb per square foot J. B. bTANoELL, Meteorological Observer.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 311, 11 June 1875, Page 2
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